A Brisbane Councillor has stirred up an Australia Day brouhaha after criticising CLG’s Fox Hotel for promoting its Colonial IPA – likening colonisation to the Holocaust. Cr Jonathan Sri is Brisbane born and raised, and entered politics with a desire to effect change for under-represented minorities, after studying law and spending time with Aboriginal communities […]
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A pub in south-west Sydney remains closed after seven months, as its insurance refuses to pay on a claim for damage caused by floods. On 5 June last year, the suburb of Picton, on the edge of the Blue Mountains National Park, experienced wild weather that saw the usually subdued Stonequarry Creek rise several metres
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In a final twist of the Cairns Courthouse caper, Pelathon has surprised the Council and pulled the pin and will cease trading this week. Following the announcement that Pelathon Management Group would be buying Lantern’s historic Courthouse Hotel in Cairns, Cairns Council pronounced to media that it was going to acquire it. The surprise claim
Early election jostling has seen political leaders vie for the attentions of business and the unemployed in WA, flaring up a long-standing national debate on penalty rates. Western Australia will see a State election on 11 March, 2017, and experiencing the nation’s highest unemployment rate (currently 6.5 per cent) jobs and the economy are set
Men are not the only perpetrators of antisocial behaviour and as the summer surge begins November saw news of three incidents of violence by women in Australian pubs. Just past midnight into 5 November, a 24-year-old woman is alleged to have struck a 25-year-old in the face with a glass bottle in a Perth pub.
A senseless brawl outside a north Queensland pub has left a man in a coma and a town rallying in support. On Friday, 18 November around 11pm an altercation began between a group of men outside the Court House Hotel in Charters Towers, around 130 kilometres south-west of Townsville. Attempting to break up the fight,
A bit of argy-bargy in the Pagewood has made the news, purely due to the involvement of famous 76-year-old rugby league coach Warren Ryan, and his 83-year-old mate. Ryan is a former Commonwealth Games athlete, and coach of both the Newcastle Knights and Western Suburbs Magpies to NRL premierships. While drinking at his local in
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Men in Victoria and Queensland have been hit with tough penalties for their roles in two incidents of antisocial behaviour in pubs. On 6 May at the Railway Hotel in Bannockburn, two men not known to each other got into a verbal altercation, and 33-year-old Lee Wilkinson was pushed to the ground. At some stage
Premier Baird is standing firm one of his decisions, to ban the greyhound industry in NSW, despite mounting party pressure and the loss of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions. In July Premier Mike Baird and state National leader Troy Grant announced plans to shut down the greyhound industry, based on a report by
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Following Tuesday’s release of the much-anticipated Callinan Review, Sydneysiders are coming together in a massive rally 9 October to demand government Keep Sydney Open. In February, as the Review into Sydney’s ‘lockout’ licensing laws geared up, over 15,000 people gathered on the streets of Sydney to protest the laws that are quashing Sydney’s night-time vibrancy.
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